That reminds me of an old saying that my Italian father used to use, about a hunter who was aiming at a duck:<p>"If I shoot this duck, and then four more, I'll have five!"<p>In the English-speaking world this is, of course, "Counting your chickens before they hatch."<p>NASA can't even get men from the Earth into space at the moment, yet they talk about setting up a permanent Moon Base.<p>Absolutely laughable.